Transcriptions of the lectures on Srimad-Bhagavatam from Mayapur Chandrodaya Mandir
Transcribed by Ananda Tirtha Prabhu
Date: February 7,2010
Verse: Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.32.24
Speaker: HH Devamrta Swami
…It is interesting how Lord Kapiladev is talking about liberation. Indeed Devahuti wanted to know how to become liberated. Of course as you heard in preceding classes, the liberation that Lord Kapiladev is ultimately presenting to Devahuti is simply to have the mind absorbed in the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His service. Why do the bhakti sastras talk about the other kind of liberation – so called liberation into the impersonal Brahman? You have to – Sanatan Goswami explains – you have to talk about things and present their drawbacks so that people will not get into those things. In other words rather than simply say, “No. Don’t do it.” It is better to explain impersonal liberation is like this and therefore it is not really what we should be aiming for… read full story
